Americana, Furniture, Folk Art, Silver, Chinese Export and Prints
Americana, Furniture, Folk Art, Silver, Chinese Export and Prints
Property from the Speed Art Museum, Sold to Benefit the Acquisitions Fund
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January 24, 09:43 PM GMT
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1,000 - 1,500 USD
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Property from the Speed Art Museum, Sold to Benefit the Acquisitions Fund
A Chinese Export Armorial Plate for the Portuguese Market
Qing Dynasty, Qianlong Period, Circa 1765
清乾隆 約1765年 粉彩紋章圖盤
painted at the rim with the arms of Dom Gaspar de Saldanha de Albuquerque, and the rim inscribed with SALDANHA and DEAL BU QUER QUE
width 9 1/8 in.; 23.2 cm
A pair of wine coolers is illustrated in A. Varela Santos, Portugal in Porcelain from China: 500 Years of Trade, Vol. II, Lisbon, 2008, cat. no. 5.03, where the author discusses the arms in detail, and speculates that Gaspar had a great interest in hunting in fishing, which gave the inspiration to the service's unique design. A plate is illustrated in Maria Antónia Pinto de Matos, The RA Collection of Chinese Ceramics: A Collector's Vision, Vol. III, London, 2011, cat. no. 498, and the author in this case believes the service to be a eulogy to fine dining. The author further notes that there are no other dinner services with similar decoration known, and is one of the only few services extant with porcelain as well as painted enamel pieces.
A selection of examples from this service, is illustrated in John Goldsmith Phillips, China-Trade Porcelain: An Account of Its Historical Background, Manufacture, and Decoration and a Study of the Helena Woolworth McCann Collection, Cambridge, 1956, pls 6, 37 and 38.